Example sentences of "given [adv prt] for dead " in BNC.
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1 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
2 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
3 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
4 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
5 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |